Need a tool to cut WMV without re-encoding

[perdomot]

Can anyone tell me of a tool(freeware) to cut WMV movies. I tried using the Movie Maker in Windows but when I go to save the movie I've trimmed, it re-encodes the video. Thanks.

[Baldrick]

Try steeper. If it wont work you can try asfcut or asfbin(command line tools) from http://www.radioactivepages.com/. They work likes this from a command prompt,
"c:\location to\asfbin.exe" -i "c:\video.wmv" -start 5:30 -stop 6:30 -o "c:\newvideo.wmv"

[BiggerJim]

Asfbin (command line) with Cut Assistant (GUI for asfbin). If you use Asfbin 1.5 or later, try "-rkf" option. With this option you can even cut on non-keyframe positions. asfbin will then only reencode the small part between cut and next keyframe. the rest is simply copied.

NOTE if you try -rkf and asfbin gives you this error: "Decompression error: VCM decoding driver is not available", the you must install the VCM driver from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/de/9series/codecs/vcm.aspx